Well-adjusted, empathetic and reasonable 13 year olds don't rape their siblings just because they viewed some pornography. At 13 they know enough to understand how these actions are wrong and can impact another person.

miss diminutive:Well-adjusted, empathetic and reasonable 13 year olds don't rape their siblings just because they viewed some pornography. At 13 they know enough to understand how these actions are wrong and can impact another person.

I suspect there's more to the story here.

My wife used to work with underaged sex offenders. Almost every single one was a victim of sexual abuse themselves, exposed to pornography and sex from a young age, often by relatives or close family friends. Stories that were extremely difficult to listen to.

And then there was, every once in a while, the genuine sociopath with good parents that just had absolutely no empathy and no compunction in getting whatever he wanted.

miss diminutive:Well-adjusted, empathetic and reasonable 13 year olds don't rape their siblings just because they viewed some pornography. At 13 they know enough to understand how these actions are wrong and can impact another person.

I suspect there's more to the story here.

I never understand how people can't seem to grasp that millions of kids watch porn and grow up to be pretty much normal.

netweavr:Mike_LowELL: So I take it Kotaku doesn't write about games anymore?

Why would they? Reviews don't get page-views. People would rather go to youtube and watch the gameplay instead of simply reading about it.

Is that true? I never watch youtube footage of a game I'm looking to buy. I'd much rather read a decent (not blatantly paid for) review, or even better, a slew of reviews via metacritic. Is that the minority position?

randomX:*sigh* Is it wrong that THAT is the release I needed to hear? That's my brother, hurray.

Are you saying your brother is a sociopath? Good lord that must be a burden on your heart, because even the ones that aren't raping or murdering or whatever are fleecing and cheating people in all sorts of ways.

That's tough to be around and have in your life however directly or tangentially.

miss diminutive:Well-adjusted, empathetic and reasonable 13 year olds don't rape their siblings just because they viewed some pornography. At 13 they know enough to understand how these actions are wrong and can impact another person.

I suspect there's more to the story here.

Yeah, I started looking at porn around that age...and it made me want to bang fully developed (or over developed) adult female porn stars who had years of experience working a cock.

miss diminutive:Well-adjusted, empathetic and reasonable 13 year olds don't rape their siblings just because they viewed some pornography. At 13 they know enough to understand how these actions are wrong and can impact another person.

Hell, I watched as much porn as I could get my hands on when I was that age and not once did I ever rape either of my two younger sisters, not even a little bit.

Granted that was before the internet (as we know it) came along so I didn't have easy access to vast quantities of every type of porn imaginable, but I doubt that would have changed anything. Also my parents wouldn't have been stupid enough to let me have unsupervised internet access.

I mean, by 15 or 16 it's more arguable, but 13-year-olds function entirely on informed morality and reward/punishment conditioning. They don't really have innate morality stemming from their own reason and empathy.

I am skeptical of this story, as it seems tailor made to further an agenda.

If it did happen as reported, authorities need to be looking for the adult who raped the 13 year old. Because viewing porn does not make one rape an eight year old. A sock, maybe. But not a prepubescent sibling.